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<blockquote data-quote="Bev18" data-source="post: 772506" data-attributes="member: 109452"><p>having just come off all forms of insulin it took me months to have a proper hypo. I'm T2 for about 11 years.</p><p></p><p>Started on long and short acting insuman in May 2014, then around August came off the short acting, had my first proper hypo in December walking round tesco. Grabbed a box of jelly babies quickly. </p><p></p><p>finger prick test was 28 when first started on insulin, and Hba1C was 146, I thought it would come down much much faster that it did and that was also low carbing as well and trying to not use to much insulin. at first was on 24 u long acting and averaged about 8-10u a day of short acting. i was on gliclizide as well 80mg twice a day and the usual metformin. </p><p></p><p>I went hypo in December because i had brekkie at 6am, then nothing till 2pm, was a Saturday so not as regimented with lunchtime as i am during the week at work. Stomach normally tells me it wants some food.</p><p></p><p>I also found that on a work day if i had lunch at mid day and didnt get home till 5pm ish, i'd start feeling funny whilst cooking tea and realised to test then and it would be around 4.6, luckily i never got to a 3 reading. </p><p></p><p>My hypo's affected my speech and i got very hot and sweaty. And developed a funny feeling in my stomach.</p><p></p><p>When readings were so high in the early days, i did feel a bit yuck and had hot sweats quite often but that was the blood sugars coming down, but not official hypo's because the readings were still so high, plus eyesight went very peculiar then sorted itself out.</p><p></p><p>I took my long acting insulin and Victoza at night time so it had chance to kick in overnight. and the victoza to try and minimise the side effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bev18, post: 772506, member: 109452"] having just come off all forms of insulin it took me months to have a proper hypo. I'm T2 for about 11 years. Started on long and short acting insuman in May 2014, then around August came off the short acting, had my first proper hypo in December walking round tesco. Grabbed a box of jelly babies quickly. finger prick test was 28 when first started on insulin, and Hba1C was 146, I thought it would come down much much faster that it did and that was also low carbing as well and trying to not use to much insulin. at first was on 24 u long acting and averaged about 8-10u a day of short acting. i was on gliclizide as well 80mg twice a day and the usual metformin. I went hypo in December because i had brekkie at 6am, then nothing till 2pm, was a Saturday so not as regimented with lunchtime as i am during the week at work. Stomach normally tells me it wants some food. I also found that on a work day if i had lunch at mid day and didnt get home till 5pm ish, i'd start feeling funny whilst cooking tea and realised to test then and it would be around 4.6, luckily i never got to a 3 reading. My hypo's affected my speech and i got very hot and sweaty. And developed a funny feeling in my stomach. When readings were so high in the early days, i did feel a bit yuck and had hot sweats quite often but that was the blood sugars coming down, but not official hypo's because the readings were still so high, plus eyesight went very peculiar then sorted itself out. I took my long acting insulin and Victoza at night time so it had chance to kick in overnight. and the victoza to try and minimise the side effects. [/QUOTE]
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